Do space shuttles fly to a geo sync altitude to launch satellites?

Answer 1

No. Max altitude for shuttles is about 350 miles. I think Columbia attained 385 during one of it's test flights, but generally they stay under 300.

To launch a geo-sync satellite from the shuttle, they attach a special booster to the satellite, and eject it off the shuttle. When it's far enough away, they ignite the booster, and that sends it up to the proper altitude.

Answer 2

No, the shuttle cannot go that high. They have used shuttles to carry a satellite AND a small booster to low orbit and then the small booster took the satellite the rest of the way for geosynchronous orbit, but they don't do that any more. It is just easier and cheaper to launch the satellites on a regular unmanned rocket.

Answer 3

Some years back I kept a Praying Mantis as a pet, and they only eat live food! Consequently, I acquired the skill of GENTLY capturing live flies in flight, or off any surface, so that I could feed my Mantis uninjured and active prey. Most moving incident was late one night when on arrival home I found my Mantis shedding its skin. I watched, enthralled, for over an hour and I shall never forget seeing my Mantis gradually extend and spread its brand new rainbow-shimmering wings. Next day I released it onto a grapevine in my garden, the same garden in which I subsequently found a swarm of very tiny, recently hatched mantids! They are the cutest little creatures you could ever imagine.

Answer 4

Space shuttles never go that high. Geosynchronous satellites are launched by unmanned rockets.

Answer 5

No, they fly in low Earth orbit. Boosters take satellites to 23,000 miles up where they can be geosynchronous.

Answer 6

it is quite probable but highly unlikely

Answer 7

No.